The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire (Abrams Discoveries) | 
|  | | | Title: | The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire (Abrams Discoveries) | | Author: | Serge Gruzinski | | Publisher: | Harry N. Abrams, Inc. | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 30 October, 1992 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0810928213 / 9780810928213 | | List Price: | $12.95 | | You Save: | $2.59 | | Amazon Price: | $10.36 | |
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Explores the complex aspects of the ancient Aztec civilization, its artistic and cultural achievements, its bloody religion, and its history--from earliest times to its collapse with the arrival of the Spanish in the New World. Original.
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• A Great Little Book 31 January, 2001
This a handy little book that can be taken with you anywhere, it is smaller than an average man's hand. It's an excellent source book for covering the the rise and fall of the Mexica(Aztec) civilization. The illustrations are wonderful reproductions of some of the most famous paintings of the conquest, including many from the murals of Diego Rivera. The paper is thick stock and fact filled with little commentary that is conjecture. The strength of this reference book is that it has many rarely seen pictures from an assortment of codexes and the reproductions are superb. Some are small but the quality remains so as to distinquish what you are looking at without any problem. The color in the illustrations is great and very much as the originals. Every page has at least one picture and most have numerous. It is visually stimulating to see as you read the history. Another strength of the book is that it has one third dedicated to documents. The conquest is retold, again, in a series of original documents, dating from the time period being discussed, most of which are primary documents. Anyone interested in Mexico and it's history will benefit from this book. Also anyone interested in art will enjoy the collection of illustrations throughout book. This is an excellent, little, wealth of information waiting for the student of Mexican history.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AO4A961ZKHJPL
• Beautiful Book 09 August, 2007
I love the size of the book because it fist in my purse. The paper quality and the pictures are amazing. It is very easy to read because of all the images it has. Beautiful
- Reviewed by customer ID: AG7WD5CBZQF1I
• Very Good Introduction 06 September, 2000
This was a very helpful book in understanding the Aztec civilization and culture, and the spanish conquest. The illustrations are very helpful and the judgements are sparse and generally fair.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1O8B15NC9T2GB
• One Of The Best Books I've Ever Read 09 June, 2001
For anyone interested in learning more or learning for the first time about the Aztecs, this book is highly recommended. As mentioned by the other reviewer, it is filled with so many high quality art pictures and is very effective in describing the history, beliefs and rituals of this great empire. Someone stole my book, but I'm going to buy it again. It's that good.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A148C76AIZF8GT
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